KIDS AND TECHNOLOGY

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Little kids are very adorable, they can be stubborn and manipulative but they are still adorable. Throughout their growth circle, every stage has negative or positive impact. Due to high growth of technology most kids now have access of smart phones, ipad tablets, television and computer through their parents or some other them have their own. I hope you know what is happening now in this world of technology with reference to what is happening to our kids.Guess what? Most kids are so attached to those electronic devices!

In positive perspective, this is very good for the growing kids; since they will be already know one or two things about technology, they won’t be empty headed at school when they are been told about technology. I don't want to explain in detail the other side of a coin; you may guess what is happening in negative perspective.

Technology can help parents in different ways to nurture their children such as;

1.         Keep children occupied

All parents have those moments when they need something to keep their children occupied so they can get thing done around the house. Many parent return to technology in those circumstance.

2.     Getting children ready for bed

Some children need book or story to go to bed.

3.     Calming an upset child

When a child is upset and the parent is trying to calm him or her, most parents rely on technology.

4.     To reward or disciplining a child

Technology can be used to reward or discipline a child, television seems to be the medium most widely used as a tool for those purpose.

The big question is where do you draw the boundary between allowing your children to avoid themselves of highly technologies and

 excessive use or overuse of technologies?

When children overdue technology

·      They lack time essential for personal interaction in the real world

·      They lack time for creative thought and mind

·      They lack time for calming over react brain

Overdue of technology make them lack time to opening playing with other kids, parent, sidling or peer. Also it becomes difficult for them to understand communication and impact of their words to others.

We as parent can help our children to use technology in a good way like;

·      Talking to your children

Since parents do ask their kids where they are going and who their going with should be the same with technology, you should ask what are they doing in Internet.

·      Develop rules

Together with your children develop rules about acceptable and safe behaviour for all electronic media.

·      Explore the internet

Visit the website our children are visiting and ask the pros and cons most websites and on-line activities are beneficial. This helps young people learn new information and interact with people who have the same interest.

·      Talk with other parents

Talk to other parents about how they have discussed technology use with their children’s

·      Educate yourself

We should stay informed about new device and websites your child is using. Continually talking to your child and explore the technology yourself.

We cannot deny our kids to interact with technology but we can minimize the usage of technology in their life.

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